Soooo, how is high-density looking to everyone now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine thinking that a once-in-a-century health event is an actual argument against smart growth that sets up affordability, sustainability, and accessibility for generations to come.

Or what's even worse and sadly more likely, imagine knowing how ridiculous that is yet going right ahead and using a disaster that will likely kill hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans to push your personal NIMBY agenda.

"smart growth" is another meaningless buzz phrase used by hacks.

"affordability"? no housing has gotten cheaper in places like Seattle, DC, NYC, LA, Boston, Nashville where 100s of new mid and high-rises have gone up since 2010. this is just a barefaced lie perpetuated by greedy developers and their hack puppets. let me guess, they just didn't build them high enough!

Agreed.

Increased high density does NOT equal more ‘affordable’ housing. What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine thinking that a once-in-a-century health event is an actual argument against smart growth that sets up affordability, sustainability, and accessibility for generations to come.

Or what's even worse and sadly more likely, imagine knowing how ridiculous that is yet going right ahead and using a disaster that will likely kill hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans to push your personal NIMBY agenda.

"smart growth" is another meaningless buzz phrase used by hacks.

"affordability"? no housing has gotten cheaper in places like Seattle, DC, NYC, LA, Boston, Nashville where 100s of new mid and high-rises have gone up since 2010. this is just a barefaced lie perpetuated by greedy developers and their hack puppets. let me guess, they just didn't build them high enough!

Agreed.

Increased high density does NOT equal more ‘affordable’ housing. What a joke.

Increased density does equal MORE housing. And we need more housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine thinking that a once-in-a-century health event is an actual argument against smart growth that sets up affordability, sustainability, and accessibility for generations to come.

Or what's even worse and sadly more likely, imagine knowing how ridiculous that is yet going right ahead and using a disaster that will likely kill hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans to push your personal NIMBY agenda.

"smart growth" is another meaningless buzz phrase used by hacks.

"affordability"? no housing has gotten cheaper in places like Seattle, DC, NYC, LA, Boston, Nashville where 100s of new mid and high-rises have gone up since 2010. this is just a barefaced lie perpetuated by greedy developers and their hack puppets. let me guess, they just didn't build them high enough!

Agreed.

Increased high density does NOT equal more ‘affordable’ housing. What a joke.

Increased density does equal MORE housing. And we need more housing.

No we do not.

Developers want more housing because it gets them more money.

[Anonymous]

More housing also means more tax revenue in the form or income, sales and property taxes. That helps pay for things that we need in the city. Especially if we are going to have to be independent of the federal government and potentially our neighboring states on a variety of fronts.

[Anonymous]

Look at the difference in coronavirus cases in NYC and LA. NYC has 800 cases for every 100,000 people. LA has 58 per 100,000. What's the main difference between NYC and LA? Density.

Thank goodness for single family homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More housing also means more tax revenue in the form or income, sales and property taxes. That helps pay for things that we need in the city. Especially if we are going to have to be independent of the federal government and potentially our neighboring states on a variety of fronts.

Ah, so now it’s that DC needs build tall and dense in our neighborhoods so that DC can afford statehood. That’s a really compelling proposition.

[Anonymous]

Here’s an interesting link to 25 new developments coming on line now or shortly, most in DC. The development lobby that has effectively captured the mayor’s office claims that DC needs to upzone to build many more of these, especially west of Rock Creek Park. So much for “affordable housing.”

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a-virtual-tour-of-more-than-25-dc-area-developments/16643

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the difference in coronavirus cases in NYC and LA. NYC has 800 cases for every 100,000 people. LA has 58 per 100,000. What's the main difference between NYC and LA? Density.

Thank goodness for single family homes.

And the fact California has 60,000 tests on backlog.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article241759491.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at the difference in coronavirus cases in NYC and LA. NYC has 800 cases for every 100,000 people. LA has 58 per 100,000. What's the main difference between NYC and LA? Density.

Thank goodness for single family homes.

And the fact California has 60,000 tests on backlog.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article241759491.html

You can't make this stuff up, "Micheli said she and her staff were particularly frustrated when they went to deliver Dominguez’s samples to the Sacramento County lab on Monday afternoon, and were met with signs saying the office would be closed for Cesar Chavez Day on Tuesday."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an interesting link to 25 new developments coming on line now or shortly, most in DC. The development lobby that has effectively captured the mayor’s office claims that DC needs to upzone to build many more of these, especially west of Rock Creek Park. So much for “affordable housing.”

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a-virtual-tour-of-more-than-25-dc-area-developments/16643

The message: Poor people need to get out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an interesting link to 25 new developments coming on line now or shortly, most in DC. The development lobby that has effectively captured the mayor’s office claims that DC needs to upzone to build many more of these, especially west of Rock Creek Park. So much for “affordable housing.”

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a-virtual-tour-of-more-than-25-dc-area-developments/16643

Who decided that gentrification should now be known as "upzoning"? Seems like a transparent attempt at re-branding gentrification.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an interesting link to 25 new developments coming on line now or shortly, most in DC. The development lobby that has effectively captured the mayor’s office claims that DC needs to upzone to build many more of these, especially west of Rock Creek Park. So much for “affordable housing.”

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a-virtual-tour-of-more-than-25-dc-area-developments/16643

Who decided that gentrification should now be known as "upzoning"? Seems like a transparent attempt at re-branding gentrification.

No. There’s a difference. “Upzoning” is when less dense allowable zoning is replaced by zoning that permits taller and denser buildings. There is a DC bureaucratic term called “upFLUMming” in which changes that contemplate denser and taller uses as made to the Future Land Use Map. Upzoning and upFLUMming can create economic incentives for gentrification, of course. But they are not the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an interesting link to 25 new developments coming on line now or shortly, most in DC. The development lobby that has effectively captured the mayor’s office claims that DC needs to upzone to build many more of these, especially west of Rock Creek Park. So much for “affordable housing.”

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a-virtual-tour-of-more-than-25-dc-area-developments/16643

Who decided that gentrification should now be known as "upzoning"? Seems like a transparent attempt at re-branding gentrification.

No. There’s a difference. “Upzoning” is when less dense allowable zoning is replaced by zoning that permits taller and denser buildings. There is a DC bureaucratic term called “upFLUMming” in which changes that contemplate denser and taller uses as made to the Future Land Use Map. Upzoning and upFLUMming can create economic incentives for gentrification, of course. But they are not the same thing.

I think the term "upzoning" was invented to make gentrification easier to sell, and also to make white liberals feel better about kicking poor black people out of the city.

[Anonymous]

The mayor’s plan is to upzone Ward 3 significantly to direct new residents to that part of the city and thereby reduce the gentrification pressure in the “real DC.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mayor’s plan is to upzone Ward 3 significantly to direct new residents to that part of the city and thereby reduce the gentrification pressure in the “real DC.”

That makes no sense. I live in Ward 4 and they are building high-end condos everywhere. Pretty soon Ward 4 will be predominantly white. Huge, huge change.